We lost footing twice; but a mass of tangled timber above broke the current-nowhere very strong-and the water Shoaled quickly under the further shore; the bottom was sound, too, just there, though the bank was steep; and Falcon answered a sharp drive of the spurs with a gallant spring, that landed him on a narrow shelf of slippery clay, hedged in on three sides by brush absolutely impenetrable.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence
The bird, in struggling to escape, had passed over the portion of the lake where it was deep and dangerous, and was now close to the edge, where it Shoaled, I did not hesitate a moment; I was only too glad to put an end to the towing match, and therefore released my grasp from the leg of the swan.
"The Boy Tar"
Mayne Reid
At midnight, the water Shoaled to twenty fathoms, when I dropped the anchor until daylight.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes